Articles Posted November 2011
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Ludacris Releases Video To His Drake & Big Sean Diss ‘Big BaDaBoom’
As was already made abundantly clear when we interviewed Random Axe ealier this year and Sean P told us to name Big Sean ‘Thin Sean’ from now on(“Looking like he can dodge rain”), not everybody…
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Mayer Hawthorne Broadcasts Alternative Halftime Show From His Parents House
As a citizen of the old world I’m only familiar with Thanksgiving traditions through their representation in pop culture, but I’ve gathered as much as that the halftime show is a pretty big deal. Having…
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Rapper’s Thanksgiving Memory Includes Adopting Homeless Kids
As Americans and members of the TRU nation pause to celebrate a moment of Thanksgiving, we felt it would be proper to share this cool story from Bobby “Tre9” Herring, co-owner of the Christian hip…
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Review: Yelawolf – Radioactive
Yelawolf has built a considerable fanbase with his rapidfire melodic flow and Alabama twang, which ultimately scored him a deal at one of the top labels in the game, the impressively resurrected Shady Records. But…
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DJ Shadow’s Remix Competition Is Garnering Nice Results
DJ Shadow is holding a remix competition for his new single featuring vocals by Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano. You can download the stems and upload your own remix, voting goes through Shadow’s site and ‘favoriting’…
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The Full ‘Undun’ Video Series By The Roots
Here’s the 4th and final installment of The Roots’ ‘undun’ video series which is actually set to the opening track of the album. The player below contains all four videos in the proper order so…
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Classics Revisited: Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
These days, the word “classic” is thrown around as loosely as a Nerf ball at a picnic. However, we at TRU consider classics to be something which stand the test of time and have a…
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Young Jeezy’s Short Film ‘.38′
Def Jam exec: Wow, Kanye really gave us some great 4th quarter numbers last year! People were all talking about his movie with those ballerinas and the hot chick with the wings and stuff! How…
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Return Of The Dog: Will DMX Make A Comeback?
A few years back, hip hop lost its dog. Fierce, energetic, intense, the dog eventually let itself become out of control- even control of itself. However, the faint barking heard from a distance over the…
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Action Bronson & Statik Selektah – Not Enough Words (Video)
Tomorrow is the day ‘Well Done,’ the collaborative album by Action Bronson & Statik Selektah hits the shelves and servers. It’s another notch on the stick for great producer/emcee projects, a cohesive album that you…
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The 5 Worst Rap Names to Google
In this day and age it’s become more important than ever for an artist to have an online presence. Recording under a name that’ll churn out a zillion other results before yours is probably not a sound business move, but it’s something these five almost impossible to google artists did anyway. Peep disadvantaged game.
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Photos: Women of the 2011 AMAs
Another lame music award! I didn’t watch any of it, but I did manage to catch my future ex-wife Nicki Minaj rocking out in that sexy android getup. Hmmm…so futuristic. Also: J. Lo gave Pitbull…
